An ethical person - like a politician, banker or lawyer - may know right from wrong, but unlike many of them, a moral person lives it. An Americanist first already knows that.
Bankers and their government agents will always act in their own best interests. Any residual benefit flowing down to the citizens by happenstance will just be litter.
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Thursday, April 3, 2014
▶ 'The Road to Serfdom' at 70 | David Gordon - YouTube
Published on Apr 3, 2014
From the panel recorded at the 2014 Austrian Economics Research Conference in Auburn, Alabama, on 20 March 2014. Sponsored by Carolyn Foss.
An unimpeachable classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom
has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers
for half a century. Originally published in 1944—when Eleanor Roosevelt
supported the efforts of Stalin, and Albert Einstein subscribed lock,
stock, and barrel to the socialist program—The Road to Serfdom was seen as heretical for its passionate warning against the dangers of state control over the means of production. ...
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